Love & Melancolia

The movies told her love was easy and usually worked out for the best. Cynics told her that love was never easy and seldom worked out for the best. Two trite sayings don’t make a right. She hoped for the movies but trusted the cynics–and she found out her own truth.

Love is lonely when things don’t work out. Love is melancholy when things almost–but don’t quite–work out. Yet love is still the most prized affection in the world. Why? It angered her that she couldn’t yet understand.

Yet life has a way of making it tolerable. Laying in a grassy meadow can make most love disappear for a while. And in her own way, she loved that.